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Eddie Adcock

bj, voc, *1938 US, Virginia
Musician of Country
A.k.a. Edward Windsor Adcock Clinton Codack

Eddie Adcock (born June 21, 1938 in Scottsville, Virginia) is an American banjoist and one of the true innovators in the five-string banjo pantheon.His professional career as a 5-string banjoist began in 1953 when he joined Smokey Graves & His Blue Star Boys, who had a regular show at a radio station in Crewe, Virginia. Between 1953-57, he floated between different bands. Bill Monroe offered a job to Adcock in 1957, and he played with the Blue Grass Boys until Monroe had to let him go because the band simply wasn't earning enough money to employ him. Adcock returned to working day jobs, but that was short-lived. After he started working in a sheet metal factory, Jim Cox, John Duffey, and Charlie Waller asked him to join their new band, The Country Gentlemen. Adcock performs almost exclusiv

Instruments

• Banjo
• Vocals
• Guitar
• Acoustic guitar
• Backing Vocals

Genres

• Country
• World
• Folk

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